Heterotrophic Activity in the Sea

1. Front Matter

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2. Microbial Processes in the Sea: Diversity in Nature and Science

   • Lawrence R. Pomeroy

   Pages 1-23

3. Strategies for Growth and Evolution of Micro-Organisms in Oligotrophic Habitats

   • H. van Gemerden, J. G. Kuenen

   Pages 25-54

4. Physiological and Biochemical Aspects of Marine Bacteria

   • W. J. Wiebe

   Pages 55-82

5. Substrate Capture by Marine Heterotrophic Bacteria in Low Nutrient Waters

   • Richard Y. Morita

   Pages 83-100

6. Inputs into Microbial Food Chains

   • Jonathan H. Sharp

   Pages 101-120

7. Dynamics of Pools of Dissolved Organic Carbon

   • Richard T. Wright

   Pages 121-154

8. Sinking of Particulate Matter from the Surface Water of the Ocean

   • Barry T. Hargrave

   Pages 155-178

9. Measurement of Bacterioplankton Growth in the Sea and Its Regulation by Environmental Conditions

   • Farooq Azam, Jed A. Fuhrman

   Pages 179-196

10. Adenine Metabolism and Nucleic Acid Synthesis: Applications to Microbiological Oceanography

    • David M. Karl, Christopher D. Winn

    Pages 197-215

11. Measurements of Bacterial Growth Rates in some Marine Systems Using the Incorporation of Tritiated Thymidine into DNA

    • D. J. W. Moriarty

    Pages 217-231

12. Bacterial Growth in Relation to Phytoplankton Primary Production and Extracellular Release of Organic Carbon

    • Bo Riemann, Morten Søndergaard

    Pages 233-248

13. Diel and Seasonal Variation in Growth Rates of Pelagic Bacteria

    • Åke Hagström, Ulf Larsson

    Pages 249-262

14. Organic Particles and Bacteria in the Ocean

    • Peter J. Wangersky

    Pages 263-288

15. Nutrient Interactions and Microbes

    • Francis A. Richards

    Pages 289-312

16. Heterotrophic Utilization and Regeneration of Nitrogen

    • Gilles Billen

    Pages 313-355

17. A Review of Measurements of Respiration Rates of Marine Plankton Populations

    • P. J. leB. Williams

    Pages 357-389

18. The Use of Tracers and Water Masses to Estimate Rates of Respiration

    • William J. Jenkins

    Pages 391-403

19. Protozoan Bacterivory in Pelagic Marine Waters

    • John McN. Sieburth

    Pages 405-444

20. Effect of Grazing: Metazoan Suspension Feeders

    • C. Barker Jørgensen

    Pages 445-464

Introduction This book contains papers given at a NATO Advanced Research Institute (A.R.I.) held at Caiscais, Portugal, in November, 1981. The subject of the A.R.I. was marine heterotrophy; this is defined as the process by which the carbon autotrophically fixed into organic compounds by photosynthesis is transformed and respired. Obviously all animals and many microbes are heterotrophs but here we will deal only with the microbes. Also, we restricted the A.R.I. primarily to microbial heterotrophy in the water column even though we recognize that a great deal occurs in sediments. Most of the recent advances have, in fact, been made in the water column because it is easier to work in a fluid, apparently uniform medium. The reason for the A.R.I. was the rapid development of this subject over the past few years. Methods and arguments have flourished so it is now time for a review and for a sorting out. We wish to thank the NATO Marine Science Committee for sharing this view, F. Azam, A.-L. Meyer-Reil, L. Pomeroy, C. Lee, and B. Hargrave for organizational help, and H. Lang and S. Semino for valuable editing aid.

• development
• dynamics
• evolution
• microbes

• Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, USA

  John E. Hobbie

• Department of Marine Microbiology, Gothenburg University, Gothenburg, Sweden

  Peter J. leB. Williams

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